And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
ALAN BENNETTSometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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